Are maternal mitochondria the selfish entities that are masters of the cells of eukaryotic multicellular organisms?

References

• Dawkins R. The Selfish Gene 1999; Oxford Oxford University Press
   Google Scholar
• Baluška F, Volkmann D, Barlow PW. Baluška F, Volkmann D, Barlow PW. Cell-cell channels and their implications for Cell Theory. Cell-Cell Channels 2006; Georgetown and New York Landes Bioscience and Springer Verlag 1 - 18
   Google Scholar
• Baluška F, Volkmann D, Barlow PW. Cell bodies in a cage. Nature 2004; 428:371
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baluška F, Volkmann D, Barlow PW. Eukaryotic cells and their Cell Bodies: Cell Theory revisited. Ann Bot 2004; 94:9 - 32
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Agnati LF, Fuxe K, Baluška F, Guidolin D. Implications of the ‘Energide’ concept for communication and information handling in the central nervous system. J Neurol Transm 2008; In press PMID: 19221689
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Margulis L. Serial endosymbiotic theory (SET) and composite individuality. Transition from bacterial to eukaryotic genomes. Microbiol Today 2004; 31:172 - 174
   Google Scholar
• Osteryoung KW, Nunnari J. The division of endosymbiotic organelles. Science 2003; 302:1698 - 1704
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gray MW, Burger G, Lang BF. Mitochondrial evolution. Science 1999; 283:1476 - 1481
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wallace DC. Why do we still have a maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA? Insights from evolutionary medicine. Annu Rev Biochem 2007; 76:781 - 821
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Timmis JN, Ayliffe MA, Huang CY, Martin W. Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes. Nat Rev Genet 2004; 5:123 - 135
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Turner C, Killoran C, Thomas NS, Rosenberg M, Chuzhanova NA, Johnston J, et al. Human genetic disease caused by de novo mitochondrial-nuclear DNA transfer. Hum Genet 2003; 112:303 - 309
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wolf K. Insertion of mitochondrial DNA in the chromosomes—a cause for cancer and aging?. Endocytob Cell Res 1996; 11:211 - 218
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neupert W, Herrmann JM. Translocation of proteins into mitochondria. Annu Rev Biochem 2007; 76:723 - 749
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ryan MT, Hoogenraad NJ. Mitochondrial-nuclear communications. Annu Rev Biochem 2007; 76:701 - 722
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bromham L, Eyre-Walker A, Smith NH, Smith JM. Mitochondrial Steve: paternal inheritance of mitochondria in humans. Trends Ecol Evol 2003; 18:2 - 4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schwartz M, Vissing J. Paternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA. N Engl J Med 2002; 347:576 - 580
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zeh JA, Zeh DW. Maternal inheritance, sexual conflict and the maladapted male. Trends Genet 2005; 21:281 - 286
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Matsushima R, Hamamura Y, Higashiyama T, Arimura S, Sodmergen, Tsutsumi N, et al. Mitochondrial dynamics in plant male gametophyte visualized by fluorescent live imaging. Plant Cell Physiol 2008; 49:1074 - 1083
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mogenson HL, Rusche ML. Quantitative ultrastructural analysis of barley sperm I. Occurrence and mechanism of cytoplasm and organelle reduction and the question of sperm dimorphism. Protoplasma 1985; 128:1 - 13
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schatz G. The magic garden. Annu Rev Biochem 2007; 76:673 - 678
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wang X, Su B, Siedlak SL, Moreira PI, Fujioka H, Wang Y, et al. Amyloid-β overproduction causes abnormal mitochondrial dynamics via differential modulation of mitochondrial fission/fusion proteins. Proc Natl Acad USA 2008; 105:19318 - 19323
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Newmeyer DD, Ferguson-Miller S. Mitochondria: releasing power for life and unleashing the machineries of death. Cell 2003; 112:481 - 490
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schon EA, Manfredi G. Neuronal degeneration and mitochondrial dysfunction. J Clin Invest 2003; 111:303 - 312
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Delivani P, Martin SJ. Mitochondrial membrane remodeling in apoptosis: an inside story. Cell Death Differ 2006; 13:2007 - 2010
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Csordás A. Mitochondrial transfer between eukaryotic animal cells and its physiologic role. Rejuv Res 2006; 9:450 - 454
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jacob F. Evolution and tinkering. Science 1977; 196:1161 - 1166
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Russell RB, Aloy P. Targeting and tinkering with interaction networks. Nat Chem Biol 2008; 4:666 - 673
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rand DM. Mitochondrial genetics of aging: intergenomic conflict resolution. Sci Aging Knowl Environ 2005; 45:5
   Google Scholar
• Budar F, Touzet P, De Paepe R. The nucleomitochondrial conflict in cytoplasmic male sterilities revisited. Genetica 2003; 117:3 - 16
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kuhn T. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1996; Chicago The University of Chicago Press
   Google Scholar
• Agnati LF, Genedani S, Leo G, Rivera A, Guidolin D, Fuxe K. One century of progress in neuroscience founded on Golgi and Cajal's outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions. Brain Res Rev 2007; 55:167 - 189
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kauffman SA. The Origin of Order. 1993; New York Oxford University Press
   Google Scholar
• Jacob F. Bendall DS. Molecular tinkering in evolution. Evolution from Molecules to Men 1983; Cambridge Cambridge University Press
   Google Scholar
• Zeviani M, Antozzi C. Mitochondrial disorders. Mol Hum Reprod 1997; 3:133 - 148
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wallace DC, Brown MD, Lott MT. Mitochondrial DNA variation in human evolution and disease. Gene 1999; 238:211 - 230
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wallace DC. Mitochondrial DNA in aging and disease. Sci Am 1997; 277:40 - 47
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pak JW, Herbst A, Bua E, Gokey N, McKenzie D, Aiken JM. Mitochondrial DNA mutations as a fundamental mechanism in physiological declines associated with aging. Aging Cell 2003; 2:1 - 7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Penta JS, Johnson FM, Wachsman JT, Copeland WC. Mitochondrial DNA in human malignancy. Mutat Res 2001; 488:119 - 133
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roubertoux PL, Marcet B, Sluyter F, Verrier B. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and behavior: interaction between mitochondrial and nuclear genes, preliminary results from microarrays. Behav Genet 2003; 33:717
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roubertoux PL, Sluyter F, Carlier M, Marcet B, Maarouf-Veray F, Chérif C, et al. Mitochondrial DNA modifies cognition in interaction with the nuclear genome and age in mice. Nat Genet 2003; 35:65 - 69
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cordero C, Eberhard WG. Female choice of sexually antagonistic male adaptations: a critical review of some current research. J Evol Biol 2003; 16:1 - 6
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar